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Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

Green Car Congress

million) research project to investigate the use of alternative fuels that could offer customers the power and performance of modern internal combustion engines with environmental benefits comparable to an electric vehicle. It is estimated that DME from renewable energy sources could offer well-to-wheel emissions of about 3 g/km CO 2.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

In one way, the program in question—the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—is a relic from a bygone era. The RFS, in essence, mandated that the blend powering engines in the nation’s official service vehicles run on a certain amount of renewable fuel. It’s not the only question with an answer that is still in flux. says Nunes.

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Green Cars Part 4- Compressed Air

DIY Electric Car

Conventional cars work by exploding fuel and air in a chamber to exert force on the pistons, but what if rather than using an explosion to provide that pressure on the piston, you just stored your ‘fuel’ at a constant high pressure. That’s the concept behind the air car , and it looks like a pretty promising technology.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. For reasons political and economic, cars and trucks and busses remained tethered to petroleum. But we can use the electricity generated with each to power plug-in cars. But we find ourselves in 2008.

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